The Dating Game
Inkyard Press/ HarperCollins
Is there an app for this?
Three college freshman are thrown together in a class for future entrepreneurs. They create a dating app: just like always, you swipe right or left. But this app keeps track of how people swipe on you to calculate an overall rating: platinum, gold, silver or, God forbid, un-ranked. The launch of the app creates investor interest and bright career possibilities for Sara, Robbie and Braden. But it also causes chaos on the Warren University campus.
“Fans of The Social Network will devour this in a single day.”
Synopsis
When a notoriously difficult class for future entrepreneurs leads to three freshmen developing the next “it” app for dating on college campuses, all hell breaks loose…
Type A control freak Sara lives by her color-coordinated Post-it notes. Rich boy Braden wants out from under his billionaire father’s thumb. Scholarship student Roberto can’t afford for his grades to drop.
When the three are forced to work together in one of the university’s most difficult classes, tension rises to the breaking point…until the dating app they create proves to be the most viable project in class.
Their dating app, like others, asks you to swipe right or left on potential matches. But this app keeps score. It knows how other people swipe on your profile and is sure to let you know where you rank…for just 99 cents each time you check. Do you have platinum status? Gold? Silver? Or are you so unlucky-in-love that you’re unranked?
Just as the morally questionable app wreaks havoc on the lives of their fellow students, investors offer the three founders the opportunity of a lifetime to keep it going.
Late nights of app development, interest from investors and unexpected romance are woven into a true-to-life college drama that explores what it means to really connect online and IRL.